Agriculture Department tells magician to
write disaster plan for his rabbit
Magician Marty Hahne didn’t think things
could get any more harebrained after the
U.S Department of Agriculture harassed
him for using an unlicensed rabbit in
his magic shows two years ago. Now, the
agency is demanding he draw up a
disaster plan for his furry friend.
Publ.Date : Mon, 01 Jul 2013 18:17:12
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Magician Criss Angel visits Springfield
today: JQH Arena Facebook - KY3
Magician Criss Angel will make an
appearance at JQH Arena today, according
to a post on the official Facebook and
Twitter pages of the venue -- but the
appearance is limited to 400 people. The
post consists of an image that says
Angel will take to the stage at JQH at
1:30 p.m. to perform a stunt for a TV
series to be shown on SpikeTV. Admission
is free to the public, the post says. A
student worker at JQH Arena said the
first 400 people will get to see the
event...
Publ.Date : Mon, 01 Jul 2013 18:17:12
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Taschen's collection of classic magician
art is sinister and wondrous -io9
Magic: 1400s-1950s is just what it
sounds like: an overview of magicians
from late Medieval manuscripts to the
period just after World War II. The text
is lovely, with essays and captions by
Mike Caveney and Jim Steinmeyer that
illuminate just how magicians were
innovating in the field of special
effects — and razzle dazzle — over a
more than 500-year period. We learn that
"magic is the oldest performing art,"
going back to the Egyptian pharoahs, and
we discover why so many magicians wanted
to surround themselves with mystical
glamour and quasi-Satanic demon
imagery....
Publ.Date : 02 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT

I can make the Burj disappear: Emirati
magician - gulfnews.com
Dr Montaser Al Mansouri could easily
pass off as another Emirati as he orders
Turkish coffee at a restaurant in Al
Bahia here. But Al Mansouri is special
-- very special. Watch him
unceremoniously pull a wallet out of his
pocket to pay the bill. In a split
second, the purse turns into a ball of
flame in his hands. Al Mansouri
apologises to the petrified waitress,
opens the wallet again and hands her a
Dh100 note with a smile....
Publ.Date : 03 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT

DVD Review: 'Burt Wonderstone' isn't an
amazing magician - Wisconsin State
Journal
In the slight parody, Carell plays the
title character -- a stuck-in-the-past
magician who isn't exactly getting along
with his lifelong partner, Anton
Marvelton (Steve Buscemi). When a hip
street illusionist (a very funny Jim
Carrey) steals focus, Wonderstone's left
to regroup. He tries one of those big
David Blaine stunts, fails and watches
as his livelihood vanishes in front of
him.
Publ.Date : 04 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Plot holes are big enough for a
magician's rabbit - This is Bath
Nothing is what it seems in Louis
Letterier's high-stakes game of cat and
mouse between four crowd-pleasing Las
Vegas illusionists and the FBI. Every
narrative twist could be a double-bluff,
every failure a carefully orchestrated
diversion and every flirtation a
calculated exercise in audience
manipulation...
Publ.Date : 05 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Teen magician works his magic in Las
Vegas - Lewisville Leader
Turning 17 is a big milestone. This is
especially true for teen magician John
Tucker, who will spend his seventeenth
birthday as an intern at MAGIC Live, one
of the largest magic conventions in the
world. The convention will run from Aug.
11-14...
Publ.Date : 05 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Dynamo: Magician Impossible – now that's
magic - The Guardian
So here is Dynamo (AKA Steven Frayne) in
New York, in a puffa jacket, embarking
on another string of quietly astonishing
somethings, including making mobile
phones ring spontaneously and turning a
basketball into a rugby ball. At the end
of each illusion, the programme's
producers ask stupefied onlookers to
recount what they've just seen. This
proves no easy task. They might as well
be asking them to describe the shape of
gas, or mime the smell of cloud. "It
like, oh my God, and then, like,
woahwoahwoah," shouts one woman,
deafeningly surprised by the sight of a
plastic bottle appearing to pop its own
lid...
Publ.Date : 05 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT

His quiet demeanour has people fooled -
and how - Wanganui Chronicle
His street magic - apart from levitation
- includes leaning into a coin on a
table and breathing ice around it,
transferring a cellphone to the inside
of a beer bottle and casually walking on
water and or through glass windows. The
thing about this extraordinary man is
that he is very sweet. His quiet
demeanour has people fooled - you can
see that they don't really think this
small quiet chap could have them gasping
with amazement. His magic is so stunning
it takes you a couple of seconds to
actually comprehend what you've just
seen.
Publ.Date : 06 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Paul Daniels at opening of Davenport's
Magical Kingdom in North Walsham
The television performer and his wife
Debbie McGee were at the official
opening of Davenport’s Magic Kingdom on
Cromer Road, North Walsham, today. Roy
Davenport, 40, from White Horse Common,
North Walsham, who is the driving force
behind the attraction said it was a
family dream which had come to fruition.
The 15,000 sq ft warehouse cost over £1m
to create and includes hundreds of
magical artefacts from the Davenport
family which has been involved in magic
for over 100 years. It also features an
80-seat theatre, sideshows and Yvette
the real-life headless woman.
Publ.Date : Sat, 06 Jul 2013 15:58:20
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